“It’s shocking that inaccuracies like this continue to seep through contemporary and mainstream science articles.”
It is worse when it is done at a university level. I remember taking an intro zoology (freshman level) course while a university student back in the late 70s. The instructor was still using Haeckel’s(sp?) recapitualization theory as “proof” of evolution. Even at that time the theory had long been abandoned. Of course, that recapitualization was shown to be false didn’t invalidate evolution, but it was disturbing that it was still being used as evidence to support evolutionary theory.
You has to recapitulate the diagenesis of the theory too.